Not often I disagree with Whirls, but facts are, if you make the standard at 45, then you make the standard. Your no worse than someone who took 60/70/100 to get there.
I can compare that a little to my time in the Military. I was doing a job after 3 years in that it took some guys 10 years to get to, and they presented the same arguments as this. Didn't wash then, as I was good enough, and thats what mattered. Binary affair, either yes or no. It was yes. Same with this.
Airbus, you say
'I am sure that such people as you describe exist, I accept your sentiments - but you are, intentionally or otherwise, fuelling a stereotype that isn't fully justified.'
Well, I'm not out to fuel any stereotypes, just speaking as I have found. End of really, and if you find it an uncomfortable truth, I'm not sure what to say to you. It is what it is. The funny thing about stereotypes however, is they tend to be borne from truisms.
Ah, the wonderfull world of G.A.
